[ A seething noise is sucked in between his teeth -- frustrated, snakelike -- before Hei exhales it out, letting the awful tension unravel with it. It doesn't disappear; jagged knots remain all across his body, evident in the set of his jaw, the span of his shoulders and the way his arms strain as he sinks back on a scowl. It feels like some grand conspiracy, this girl trying to hijack any shred of control he has. By nature it's impossible for him to go down quietly. But another part of him -- always ready to take the daredevil plunge -- is curious to see what she'll do. ]
[ His head lolls back and his eyes slip half-shut. Through the spiky screen of his eyelashes, the lamplight above is smeared and distorted into asterisks. Hei keeps his focus there, hoping the different burns of stimulus will stop hooking into the edges of his mind and tearing him apart. ]
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[ His head lolls back and his eyes slip half-shut. Through the spiky screen of his eyelashes, the lamplight above is smeared and distorted into asterisks. Hei keeps his focus there, hoping the different burns of stimulus will stop hooking into the edges of his mind and tearing him apart. ]